“Đ seḷbretd Ćildṛn’z Lorı̣t, most fems fr hiz c̣laḅreśnz wɖ Rowld Dāl, hz crietd 26 ny wrcs ɖt śo ɖ vîbṛnsi v ɖs historic tân n ɖ sì ɖt dfînz it”
HASTINGS TIMES 15 July 2015
HASTINGS ARGUS 10 July 2015
ITV 4 July 2015
SUSSEX EXPRESS 3 July 2015
“Đs z a film abt ɖ rêlwelîn btwn Brmñm n Aḅristwiʈ. Đ jrni, filmd bî Robt Dêviz, fṛm ɖ drîvr’z cab v ɖ trên, hz bn rcordd wīcli ovr 12 munʈs, so ɖt ɖ ćenjñ hymn jiogṛfi v ɖ industrịl n farmñlandscep z cómplimentd bî ɖ fizicl ćenjz ɖt imrj ovr ɖ sīznz.”
BBC 6 July 2015
CULTURE24 26 March 2015
Continue reading ROBERT DAVIES: OF TIME AND THE RAILWAY │ MAC, Birmingham → 20 September 2015
“Bronstîn’z erydît drw̃z, pformnsz, frnićr n public art rlet t bʈ ɖ past n ɖ preznt in unsetlñli paṛdoxcl, smtmz hymṛs wez”
Mark Sheerin CULTURE24 17 July 2015
Mark Hudson TELEGRAPH 14 July 2015
“Wn v ɖoz hîṗcnspćlîzd xbiśnz ɖt mc prfct sens f y rīd ɖ kretr’z txts on ɖ we rnd – n vrćli nn f y d’nt”
ARTLYST 7 July 2015
BBC 4 July 2015
APOLLO MAGAZINE 3 July 2015
Hannah Ellis-Peterson GUARDIAN 7 October 2014
NOTTINGHAM POST 7 October 2014
“Ẃn I stér ât intu ɖ Mrzi Esćri I cn stl si ɖoz wîld xpansz v îs, fîr, mântin, sì, n a scî fl v dansñ Norɖn Lîts”
“Unsìn portrits n a lj ṣlẋn v hiz bst wrc fr ɖ NMX mc p ɖs Retṛspctv.”
“Đ imijz mst b dfiṇtv, îconic I ges, n f cidz pt ɖoz fôtoz on ɖer bedrum wōl ɖen I hd dn mî job proprli.”
Ben Miller CULTURE24 3 June 2015
Steven Morris GUARDIAN 8 May 2015
Nathan Bevan WALES ONLINE 7 May 2015
ITV 6 May 2015
ARTLYST 4 May 2015
Jenny Stevens GUARDIAN 9 April 2015
Emyr Young FFOTON April 2015
Continue reading CHALKIE DAVIES: THE N.M.E. YEARS │ National Museum Cardiff → 6 September 2015
“Mî wrc z bêst on mî xpirịns v Sâʈ Africa az a vast n terifayñ prizn, an xpirịns ẃć īvn nâ, aftr a deced v dmocṛsi, stl hōnts m.” 2006
“Ɖ fôc̣s v ɖs lūsli croṇlojicl xibišn z West’s combinešnpìsz, in ẇč ɖ ātist cmbînd verı̣s indivijl pìsz n subsiqntli rīcmbînd ɖm in dfṛnt cnfiğrešnz. Dy t ɖs combinešn n rīcombinešn v dfṛnt cndz v wrc includñ Adaptvz, frničr, sculpčr, vidioz n wrcs on pêpr fṛm dfṛnt pirı̣dz, ɖ xibišn pṛvîdz a mč nīdd n hîli antisipetd mêjr YC šowñ v West’s vẹrid, influenšl n pṛlific practis.
Hir at Ɖ Hepẉʈ Wêcfīld ɖ xibišn olso investigets ɖ cnẋnz n paṛlelz btwn ɖ wrc v Franz West n Bābra Hepẉʈ. Wɖ a plêfl yt strîcñ intvnšn intu Ɖ Hepẉʈ Famli Giftgaḷri, ɖs xibišn wl plês bʈ artists’ wrc in convsešn: ɖ ys v ɖ deṃcratc mtirı̣l v plastr; ɖ significns v ɖ stydioinvîrnmnt; n ɖ rpitd rtrn t rīcnfiğrñ n adaptñ prīvı̣s wrc.
Franz West’s practis z funḍmentli ptisiṗtri n sīcs daylog wɖ ɖ vywr. Hiz wrc ofrz verı̣s psbltiz fr xpirı̣nsñ ɖ wrld wɖ evrčenjñ rzults ɖt dpnd on rsipı̣nt n contxt. Ɖs ingejmnt cn têc plês on a fizicl levl—az in ɖ cês v ɖ Adaptvz, ẇč r ment t adapt t ɖ bodi—bt olso on a mentl or inṭlcčl levl, az z ɖ cês wɖ hiz insṭlešnz or wrcs on pêpr. West’s wrc z unpritnšs, lîtfŭtd, n hymṛs, bt fândd on an intns ingejmnt wɖ fiḷsoficl ʈt, an ŕli cnsrn ẇč intnsifîd ʈrt ɖ ātist’s lîf.
Ẇr z mî Êt? wz inišietd n côdiveḷpt wɖ ɖ Myziym v Modn Āt, Viena, n bî Franz West wɖ grt inʈyziazm bfr hiz deʈ n pṛvîdz insît intu West’s complx n mni-leyrd ātpractis.
Franz West: Ẇr z mî Êt? z ṣpwtd bî ɖ Henri Mor Fândešn, Crân Fîn Āt n ɖ Ostrı̣n Culčṛl Fwṛm, Lundn.”
Continue reading FRANZ WEST: WHERE IS MY EIGHT? │ The Hepworth Wakefield → 14 September 2014
“Mc evri šo lîc it’s yr last, z a mêjr xibišn v wrc bî rnând Britiš cnspčl ātist, Rayn Gandr. Đs šo z pāt v an inṭnašnl turprôgram, bt wl têc on a spešl ny fwm ẇn it z stêjd in Mančestr, prizntñ ny wrc n wrc prīvı̣sli unsin in ɖ YC.
Gandr studid in Mančestr fr hiz undrgrajt dgri n wl b iḷstretñ hiz clôs cnẋn t ɖ siti ʈru ny wrc crietd xclusvli fr s. Đ xibišn wl xplor tu rīsnt ʈīmz in Gandr’z wrc; Imajinirñ n Culčrfīld. Brññ tgɖr verı̣s mīdia t hîlît ɖ ātist’s plêfl wit, ɖ ātwrcs in ɖs xibišn wl xplor ɖ rlešnšps btwn ōʈr, wrc n vywr ẇr ɖ rūlz r constntli rīdifînd.”